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How to fix Empty SOLIDWORKS Drawing Views

By Javelin Technologies April 12, 2021
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How to fix Empty SOLIDWORKS Drawing Views

Are you seeing empty views when opening a SOLIDWORKS Drawing?  Where did the Views and Annotations go? In this tech tip I’ll describe the blank view problem and provide a solution. Why are my Drawing Views empty? If the urge

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Red, or Black? Easily Change Component Colors in SOLIDWORKS’ Drawing View

By GSC June 24, 2019
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Red, or Black? Easily Change Component Colors in SOLIDWORKS’ Drawing View

Using Layers to Change Colors From time to time I am asked how to change the color of a specific component in a drawing view. For example, you might want to show one of the components in an assembly drawing view

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How to Customize Your Drawings with the Line Format Toolbar

By Alignex, Inc. March 23, 2019
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How to Customize Your Drawings with the Line Format Toolbar

The Line Format Toolbar can be used in drawings to change an entity’s appearance. Using this toolbar, we have the ability to control an entity’s color, line thickness, and line style. These appearances can be managed through layers to maintain

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Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Working With Large Assemblies

By EGS India October 17, 2018
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Top 10 Tips & Tricks for Working With Large Assemblies

1) Use the Large Assembly and Lightweight Modes for Assemblies/Drawings Large assembly mode will automatically triggersome set of performance improving options based on a user defined component threshold. Lightweight components have improved opening, rebuild, and closing times. Primarily the graphical

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Why are my symbols missing?

By CADimensions July 17, 2018
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Why are my symbols missing?

<MOD-DIAM>?!? What is this? Where is my diameter symbol? Sometimes when updating SOLIDWORKS, the file locations can get mixed up. This is usually due to running multiple versions on the same computer.  SOLIDWORKS will take the file locations for the

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SolidWars: The Phantom References

By Unitec April 25, 2018
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SolidWars: The Phantom References

In SOLIDWORKS drawings we can have multiple sheets referencing different parts or assemblies as needed. Periodically, we may need to delete a sheet and/ or model views as part of the development process. When we remove a sheet from a

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SOLIDWORKS Drawings – Automatically Create a Border

By GoEngineer May 15, 2017
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SOLIDWORKS Drawings – Automatically Create a Border

How to use the Automatic Border Feature The Automatic Border Feature quickly allows you to create a border in your sheet format. You can control every aspect of the border, including grid size and layout. When using the tool border,

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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: 3D Drawing View Mode

By SOLIDWORKS May 2, 2017
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SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: 3D Drawing View Mode

Creating and presenting drawings for parts and assemblies is an important step in any design process. In some cases, it may be made difficult to see specific areas of the model in that drawing view. This typically results from the

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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

By CAD2M March 27, 2017
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Five Great Smart Dimension Tips for Sketch and Drawings

While every SOLIDWORKS user knows how to dimension lines, arcs or circles, I noticed that some engineers do not know the full power of Smart Dimension. So, in this tech blog I want to show you five handy tricks to

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